#Florence Ziegfeld

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Julie Newmar, daughter of former Ziegfeld girl Helene Jesmer, places the Miss Ziegfeld crown on Florence Henderson in 1960.

#julie newmar #florence henderson

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Albertina Rasch Girls in Rio Rita, 1927

Albertina Rasch Dancers in costume for Rio Rita (1927). Photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnson.

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The Albertina Rasch Girls wearing costumes, in the production of Rio Rita, at The New Ziegfeld Theater. Published in Vanity Fair, April 1927 (Photo by Florence Vandamm / Condé Nast)

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#albertina rasch girls #Alfred Cheney Johnston #women artists #albertina rasch #broadway production #dance costume #dancer #Tänzerin #danseuse #danzatrice #bailarina #Florence Vandamm #late 1920s #mexican costume #musical comedy #revue #revue girls #rio rita #tanzkostum #tanzköstum #1920s #ACJ #Vandamm Studio #vanity fair #women in the arts #ziegfeld revue

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1916 The glass walkway, above the audience of the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic. The Frolics were held on the roof of the New Amsterdam Theatre, home of the Ziegfeld Follies. After a night at the Follies, if you weren’t played out, you could buy a ticket to the Midnight Frolics and take the elevator up to the roof for some food, beverages, comics, singers and GIRLS! Above are showgirls Margaret Morris, Kay Laurell and Florence Cripps. From Karen Starr, FB.

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Florence Ziegfeld and Billie Burke, and William Powell and Myrna Loy as Ziegfeld and Burke

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Everything About Fitness Hashtags On Instagram

When it comes to staying in shape and valuing your body and mind, the first thing that every person will suggest to you is the art of Fitness Hashtags On Instagram.

Rajasi diet includes non-vegetarian and energy-rich foods. Tamasi diet is a combination of Rajasi and Satvik. It means non-vegetarian and vegetarian foods and of course spices. This diet makes people impatient and aggressive. But the Satvik diet is vegetarian and a little spice is also used to season it.

At the end of the 19th century, a new intellectual trend with an idealistic approach to Greek mythology (in which beauty, fitness, and development of muscles and body was considered a factor to praise and glorify man). Emerged.

As a result of the influence of this new thought, the old tradition of lifting stones became a modern sport of weightlifting, and according to its development process, it found various aspects in different cultures, such as bodybuilding and fitness.

He came to America in the 1890s and was sponsored by Florence Ziegfeld. What distinguished Sando from others.

It was her beauty, training, strength and development of her muscles and body, and it was mostly because of Sando's popularity that the sales of barbells and dumbbells rose dramatically.

Dexter Jackson

Mr. Olympia (Mr. Olympia) 1975 It was the high point in the history of this great competition in the world of bodybuilding. Ferrigno was back and determined to win. Sargenobert is also back and in great form.

For the first time, six or seven top-level champions were competing for the championship title, and perhaps it was because of the great honor and of course the difficulty of these struggles that Schwarzenegger boasted a lot about his victory.

Although the proud Frignoi secretly admired Schwarzenegger, this did not stop him from trying his hardest to win the Mr. Olympia title. A

Although he could hardly believe that after his farewell in 1976

The competition in bodybuilding had reached such a level that he himself later admitted that he had suffered a lot of pressure and difficulty in competing with a small athlete like Chris Dickerson.

Of course, the examples that indicated incredible growth were also in 1980. They appeared, from Tom Platz's legs to the underarm muscles on the calendar.

Late 1970s to 1980s. He witnessed the masterpieces of Frank Zane. With his beautiful body, he stole three Mister Olympia titles in a row.

With such a number of high-ranking opponents, it seemed really difficult for anyone to see themselves as outright winners in the future.

Despite all these problems, Lee Haney was able to win 8 times in a row between 1983 and 1991. Eliminate the competitors and take the title of Mr. Olympia emperor.

After Lee Haney's last victory in 1991. The title of Mr. Olympia remained in the strong hands of Yates for 6 consecutive years.

Arnold Schwarzenegger competed in the IFBB Mr. World competition in New York and then immediately went to London for the NABBA World competition, winning both titles within a week.

At this time, Larry Scott won the Mr. Olympia Novice Tournament twice in a row.

At the end of this decade around 1966. The handsome and stylish Frank Zayn taught a young Arnold Schwarzenegger and the bodybuilding world an unforgettable lesson.

By defeating Schwarzenegger while he was 27 kg lighter than him, Zain proved that a giant is not a perfect criterion in the field of bodybuilding championship.

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Dorothy Bertrand, Florence Ziegfeld's "A Parisian Model," Broadway Success, circa 1907

#Florence Ziegfeld #A Parisian Model #1900s #1907 #gilded age #costume #belle epoque #anna held #dorothy betrand

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Anna Held, Florenz Ziegfeld’s first wife 1897-1913

#anna held #ziegfeld #florence ziegfeld #1910s #edwardian #edwardian era

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BREAKFAST IN BED

1919

Breakfast in Bed is a play in three acts by Georges Feydeau adapted by Willard Mack and Howard Booth from Feydeau’s French play Occupe-toi d’Amelie. It was originally produced by A.H. Woods starring Florence Moore. 

A  young man is compelled to leave town and turn his fiancée over to the care of his best friend. An uncle of the best friend sends word that he has decided to bestow fortune on the nephew, providing the nephew is a happily married man. To get the fortune, the nephew convinces the girl to pose as his fiancée. She agrees but is surprised by the unexpected return of her true fiancée. Catching them in a compromising situation, the fiancée compels them to marry.

Breakfast in Bed had its world premiere at the Globe Theatre on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City NJ on August 11, 1919.  

From the Globe, the play moved to Boston’s Plymouth Theatre where it stayed for 5 months!  In December it moved to Poli’s Theatre in Meridan CT. 

“To invalids and some other persons breakfast in bed is a great treat. Perhaps it was for this reason that the farce presented at Poli's last evening before a crowded house was so labeled. It might have been called ‘Under the Bed' or 'Over the Footstool' with equal property.” ~ MERIDAN RECORD-JOURNAL

In January 1920 the play started honing in on serving Breakfast on Broadway, with an engagement in Philadelphia at the Adelphi. “The funniest girl in the world” stayed in Philadelphia with “the funniest farce in the world” until the end of January. This was Moore’s hometown, so they took particular pride in her success. 

To give the cast a night of rest, the Broadway opening was postponed from Monday to Tuesday. Hopefully, Moore enjoyed breakfast in bed on Monday. 

Breakfast in Bed opened on Broadway at Eltinge’s 42nd Street Theatre on February 3, 1920 and played 75 performances. It closed April 25, 1920. 

In 1952, the story came back to Broadway at the Ziegfeld for four performances in the original French. Madeleine Renaud played Amelie. 

In 1959, Noël Coward adapted the play as Look After Lulu with Tammy Grimes as Lulu (formerly Amelie). Cyril Ritchard directed and Cecil Beaton did the costumes. It played 39 performances at the Henry Miller’s Theatre (now the Stephen Sondheim). 

In May 1920, newspapers reported that Moore had signed with Metro to repeat her role on film. The film never happened, but there were several films of the original source material. In 1912 there had been a French silent short, which was followed by an Italian silent film in 1925. 

France remade the film in 1932 and 1949 (above). In the mid-60′s, Yugoslavia and Sweden made television movies of the original play. 

In the first English-language screen version of the French play, Judi Dench played Amelie on English television in 1973. 

In 1983, Italy remade the story with Barbara Bouchet as Amelie. In 1984, Spain did a three episode miniseries of the play with Gloria Rondriguez as Amelie. 

Florence Moore returned to Atlantic City in 1927′s Artitsts and Models and 1930′s Meet Lady Clara. On Atlantic City cinema screens, she was seen in 1929′s Apartment Hunting at the Virginia Theatre on the Boardwalk, just a short walk from the Globe, where she had Breakfast in Bed in 1919.  

#Feydeau #Breakfast in Bed #Broadway #Broadway Play #Florence Moore #Atlantic City #Philadelphia #Eltinge's 42nd Street Theatre #Farce #Judi Dench #Tammy Grimes #Globe Theatre #1919

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Ernest Cossart.

Filmografía

Cine

1916: The Pursuing Vengeance, de Martin Sabine.

1935: The Scoundrel, de Ben Hecht y Charles MacArthur.

1936: El gran Ziegfeld, de Robert Z. Leonard.

1936: Three Smarts Girls, de Henry Koster.

1936: Murder with Pictures, de Charles Barton.

1937: Angel, de Ernst Lubitsch.

1937: Champagne valse, de A. Edward Sutherland.

1939: Zaza, de George Cukor.

1939: Tower of London, de Rowland V. Lee.

1939: Three Smart Girls Grow Up, de Henry Koster.

1939: The Light that Failed, de William A. Wellman

1939: Lady of the Tropics, de Jack Conway.

1940: Kitty Foyle, de Sam Wood.

1940: Tom Brown's School Days, de Robert Stevenson.

1941: Skylark, de Mark Sandrich.

1942: Kings Row, de Sam Wood.

1945: Love Letters, de William Dieterle.

1945: Tonight and every Night, de Victor Saville.

1946: Cluny Brown, de Ernst Lubitsch.

1946: The Jolson Story, de Alfred E. Green

1947: Love from a Stranger, de Richard Whorf.

1949: John Loves Mary, de David Butler.

Teatro (Broadway)

1908: The Girls of Gottenberg, música de Ivan Caryll y Lionel Monckton, letras de Adrian Ross y Basil Hood.

1910: Mrs. Dot, de William Somerset Maugham, con Billie Burke.

1910: Love among the Lions, de Winchell Smith a partir de F. Anstey, con Ivan F. Simpson

1911: The Zebra, de Paul M. Potter a partir de Marcel Nancey y Paul Armont.

1912: The Typhoon, de Emil Nyitray y Byron Ongley a partir de Menyhert Lengyel.

1914: Marrying Money, de Washington Pezey y Bertram Marbugh.

1915: Androcles and the Lion, de George Bernard Shaw.

1915: The Man who married a Dumb Wife, de Anatole France, con Isabel Jeans.

1915: El sueño de una noche de verano, de William Shakespeare, con Isabel Jeans.

1915: The Doctor's Dilemma, de George Bernard Shaw.

1915: Sherman was right, de Frank Mandel.

1920-1921: The Skin Game, de John Galsworthy.

1921: The Title, de Arnold Bennett, interpretada y dirigida por Lumsden Hare.

1922: HE Who gets slapped, de Leónidas Andreiev, adaptada por Gregory Zilboorg, con Richard Bennett, Margalo Gillmore, Edgar Stehli, Henry Travers y Helen Westley.

1922: From Morn to Midnight, de Georg Kaiser, adaptada por Ashley Dukes, con Allyn Joslyn, Edgar Stehli, Henry Travers y Helen Westley.

1922-1923: Seis personajes en busca de autor, de Luigi Pirandello, adaptada por Edward Storer, con Florence Eldridge.

1923: The Love Habit, adaptación de Gladys Unger a partir de Pour avoir Adrienne, de Louis Verneuil, con Florence Eldridge.

1923: Casanova, de Lorenzo De Azertis, adaptada por Sidney Howard.

1923-1924: Santa Juana, de George Bernard Shaw, con Henry Travers.

1924: Seis personajes en busca de autor.

1924: The Steam Roller, de Laurence Eyre.

1924-1925: Cándida, de George Bernard Shaw, con Pedro de Cordoba.

1925-1926: Arms and the Man, de George Bernard Shaw, con Pedro de Cordoba y Henry Travers.

1926: The Chief Thing, de Nikolaï Evreinov, adaptada por Leo Randole y Herman Bernstein, con Romney Brent, Edward G. Robinson, Lee Strasberg, Henry Travers y Helen Westley.

1926-1927: Loose Ankles, de Sam Janney.

1926-1927: What never dies, de Alexander Engel, adaptada por Ernest Boyd.

1927-1928: The Doctor's Dilemma, de George Bernard Shaw, con Margalo Gillmore, Alfred Lunt, Henry Travers y Helen Westley.

1928: Marco Millions, de Eugene O'Neill, escenografía de Rouben Mamoulian, con Robert Barrat, Albert Dekker, Margalo Gillmore, Alfred Lunt, Vincent Sherman y Henry Travers.

1928: Volpone, de Ben Jonson, adaptada por Ruth Langner, con Albert Dekker, Margalo Gillmore, Alfred Lunt, Vincent Sherman, Henry Travers y Helen Westley.

1928-1929: Caprice, de Philip Moeller, con Douglass Montgomery.

1929: Becky Sharp, de Langdon Mitchell, a partir de La feria de las vanidades, de William Makepeace Thackeray, con Etienne Girardot, Arthur Hohl, Basil Sydney y Leonard Willey.

1930: The Apple Cart, de George Bernard Shaw, con Violet Kemble-Cooper, Tom Powers, Claude Rains y Helen Westley.

1930: Milestones, de Arnold Bennett y Edward Knoblauch, con Beulah Bondi y Selena Royle.

1931: Getting Married, de George Bernard Shaw, con Romney Brent, Dorothy Gish, Henry Travers y Helen Westley.

1931: The Way of the World, de William Congreve, con Walter Hampden, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Selena Royle y Cora Witherspoon.

1931: The Roof, de John Galsworthy, con Henry Hull y Selena Royle.

1932: The Devil passes, de Benn W. Levy, con Eric Blore, Arthur Byron, Mary Nash y Basil Rathbone.

1932: Too true to be good, de George Bernard Shaw, escenografía de Leslie Banks, con Leo G. Carroll y Claude Rains.

1933: The Mask and the Face, de W. Somerset Maugham, con Leo G. Carroll y Humphrey Bogart

1933-1934: Mary of Scotland, de Maxwell Anderson, con Helen Hayes, Edgar Barrier, George Coulouris, Philip Merivale, Moroni Olsen y Leonard Willey.

1935: Accent on Youth, de Benn W. Levy

1937: Madame Bovary, de Benn W. Levy, a partir de Gustave Flaubert, con Eric Portman y O. Z. Whitehead.

1945: Devils Galore, de Eugene Vale.

1948: The Play's the Thing, de Ferenc Molnár, adaptada por P. G. Wodehouse, con Louis Calhern, Francis Compton y Faye Emerson.

1949: The Ivy Green, de Mervyn Nelson, con Hurd Hatfield.

Créditos: Tomado de Wikipedia

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Anna HELD, nata Helena Anna Held, è stata un' attrice e cantante polacca naturalizzata statunitense, stella del teatro musicale di New York, tra la fine dell'ottocento e il primissimo novecento. Fu la prima moglie del famoso impresario Florence Ziegfeld, che fondo' le altrettanto famose FOLLIES.

#vintage #theather #music hall #fine 1800 #inizio 1900 #actress #singer

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Julie Newmar crowns Florence Henderson "Miss Ziegfeld" in 1960.

#julie newmar #florence henderson

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MANIKINS ENTER MOVIES

July 24, 1933

Manikins (aka mannequins) implies that the girls were chosen for their looks, not their talents.  Indeed some reports called the seven ‘poster girls’ because most of them, including Lucille Ball, were familiar faces from appearing as models on posters for various products.  Casting New York-based models was a publicity ploy by Goldwyn. The press followed the seven familiar faces on their cross-country journey to Tinseltown. 

Katherine (aka Katharine) Mauk was born in Texas, and came to New York City to write about Broadway, becoming a performer in the process. Her first role was in the revival of Florenz Ziegfeld’s Show Boat. She was then chosen to be in the chorus of Earl Carroll’s Vanities when she was convinced to go West for Roman Scandals. After that she did only one more film, Hell Cat in 1934.  Mauk appeared in posters and print ads for Lucky Strike Cigarettes as well as a brand of chewing gum.  

Rosalie Fromson started as a secretary, before moving to New York to work at the Hollywood Restaurant.  She was a poster girl for Pond’s cold cream. Her only film was Roman Scandals. 

Mary Lange was successful model and a Ziegfeld girl, before she was invited to Hollywood to become a Goldwyn girl. Her husband was a marketing executive for Standard Oil.  Roman Scandals was her 3rd of 15 films, 4 of which were with Lucille Ball.

Vivian Keefer was born in 1909 in New York City. She was the poster girl for Listerine!  Roman Scandals was the first of her 5 films, 4 of which were with Lucille Ball.

Barbara Pepper was the poster girl for Gotham Hosiery. Scandals was her screen debut, but would go on to appear in hundreds of films and television shows, including episodes of “I Love Lucy”. She became best known for playing Florence Ziffel on the TV series “Green Acres.”

Theo Phane (aka Theo Plane) was a shoe model who only did one film.

Lucille Ball (aka Diane Belmont) was the Chesterfield cigarette girl and a model for Hattie Carnegie. She had been fired from the chorus of Ziegfeld’s Rio Rita. 

#Lucille Ball #Roman Scandals #1933 #Goldwyn Girls

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Camp: Notes on Fashion, or: The Met Gala Goes Full Galaxy Brain

Camp is sincerely not serious. It is elevated kitsch. It is high-art appreciation of the banal, the pop, the tacky. It is good taste in bad taste. It is queer. It is exaggerated. It always exists in context. It is both nearly impossible to achieve at something as styled to the nines as the Met Gala, and yet also the Met Gala is one of the most camp things on this planet.

Basically, at the end of the day camp is like The Game of aesthetic philosophies, where the instant you try to define it you’re already lost. And at the end of this day, we’re left with a pile of celebrity red carpet photos that are just OUTRAGEOUS. Is it camp?? Shhh. None of it is. All of it is. It does not matter. It was *sublime*

JEN AND I ARE BACK AND WE TALKED ABOUT THESE:

LADY GAGA

Co-Chair Lady Gaga had three successive on-carpet costume reveals and ended up in spangly undies with a pink Radio Flyer wagon full of cowboy hat boxes and rosé. Anything Lady Gaga was going to do was going to be camp, but melting Met Twitter from the jump with a Gala game-changing PERFORMANCE of her studied exuberant weirdpop whimsy was a ~primo~ choice.

BILLY PORTER

Frankly, frankly??? This is too high art to even be camp. IT’S HIGH ART.

FLORENCE WELCH and SAOIRSE RONAN

Putting these together because a) the similar wing-flame structural shoulder thing (this year was big into SHOULDERS wasn’t it) and b) because while it wasn’t reading particularly camp to me (this was when I was still trying), Jen then laid this on me:

Jen: Florence and Saoirse both sort of look like they’re wearing things rejected from previous Met Galas (Heavenly Bodies and China Through the Looking Glass, respectively) because they would have been called campy.

AND NOW I’M IN2 IT, conceptually

CELINE DION

Celine Dion, Vegas superstar, in replica Ziegfeld Follies? Caaaaaammmp!

ELLE FANNING

Wow I’m impressed. I mean it’s all very ironic but also, the woman is wearing nail charms. She committed.

HAMISH BOWLES

FUCKING MEANWHILE.

Tarra: WHOMST is THIS!! Jen: Boy I wish I knew

This is apparently the English editor-at-large of Vogue. He’s killin’ it.

KATY PERRY

Katy Perry as an entire ass lit up chandelier. An entire. Chandelier.

Tarra: What truly would have sent this over the edge would be Sia swinging on her Jen:

Hahahahaha holy shit, that does it.

LIZZO

THIS IS JUST SILLY AND DELIGHTFUL. CAMP IS ABOUT DELIGHT.

JANELLE MONAE

Tom & Lorenzo: Ruling: SURREALIST CAMP. The high-art Miro undertones paired with an actual winking eye boob make this hit the mark. Jen: Hers is so good. More surreal than camp, I would say, but I just like it generally. Me: An EYEreola!!

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH and SOPHIE HUNTER

THE TASSLED WALKING STICK. Cumberbatch came in like, BRITISH DRAG?

Tarra: Apparently his wife (mauve) is an avant-garde theatre director, so thank you lady for this camp colonialists couples costume. Jen: *Raises a gin & tonic to Lord and Lady Cumberbatch*

JOAN COLLINS

Joan Collins came as herself on Dynasty. This is the winner. Like the amount of cultural currency she just flashed. Effortless. Iconic. Unbeatable. The purest high perf camp.

SOPHIE TURNER and JOE JONAS

Tarra: I think I think couples costumes are inherently camp... Jen: I think they look like they’re wearing abstract art pieces, and that would be more camp if it were the MoMA Gala, not the Met Gala Tarra: *snort*

CARA DELEVINGNE

This just seem pretty phenomenal. I have no idea why. The lines are on her body.

ASHTON SANDERS

Moonlight boy this fucking rules. Again I can’t explain why but it feels VERY camp, way to go.

NATASHA LYONNE

I just love it!!!

RICHARD MADDEN

Tarra: I think this guy came as Susan Sontag (zoom on that hair) and honestly I’m interested, this may be camp Jen: It’s Robb Stark! Tarra: Aaakjdfafskf* Jen: Would have been better with a braless turtleneck, but you can’t have everything, I guess. 

*Note: Tarra has never watched Game of Thrones, but once played a guessing game with Jen they made up where Jen would send her pictures of characters and she would attempt to ID them. She never fared well with the Starks.

HAILEE STEINFELD

She came in that ‘No Photos Please’ dress!! With a camera prop and posing!! All of these elements combine for a FUN SUCCESS.

THALIA

Jen: There’s like a Space Age-iness to this that I find fitting, or just kind of cool Tarra: Star Trek The Original Series chic!!!!!! Oh the hair MAKES IT.

ZENDAYA

Zendaya is a light-up Cinderella figurine with an interactive wand effect and a pumpkin coach bag. This is so gooooood. Jen also appreciates the camp of her male Fairy Godmother very much.

KACEY MUSGRAVE

Kacey Musgrave as Barbie® is another good good pull from the Mattel genre. Another fab handbag detail with her hairdryer on a chain, god, yes.

DANAI GURIRA

Jen: circus ringmaster/Fred Astaire vibes gets a campy thumbs up from me Tarra: I need no further excuse to post this jaw-dropping look

EZRA MILLER

I gasped so high it turned into a scream.

Jen: Ahaha ha WOW Tarra: I don’t even know what it IS!!! I’m just SCREAMING!!

Like, fellas, is it camp to go to a gala as a haute alarming seraphim-eyed living illusion wearing a diamond corset over a suit with a train? Do we even know what appearance is anymore??

And anyway that was the Met Camp Gala. “Camp” Gala. ““Camp””? Oh my god I have to go bed.

#Met Gala #Met Gala 2019 #LOOKS

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Casting Goals: Funny Girl (Using the West End Revival cast breakdown)

Lindsay Mendez as Fanny Brice

Michael C. Hall as Nicky Arnstein

Donna Murphy as Mrs. Brice

Thayne Jasperson as Eddie Ryan

Christianne Tisdale as Mrs. Meeker

Paul Schoeffler as Mr. Ziegfeld

Sharon Sachs as Mrs. Straykosh

William Ryall as Mr. Keeney (Ziegfeld u/s)

Ahmad Maksoud as Ensemble (Ziegfeld u/s, Keeney u/s)

Chelsea Emma Franko as Mimsey/Ensemble (Fanny u/s)

Ellen Harvey as Emma/Mrs. Nadler (Mrs. Brice u/s, Straykosh u/s)

Lisa Howard as Ensemble (Mrs. Brice u/s, Meeker u/s)

Madison Alexander as Bubbles/Ensemble

Marie Eife as Vera/Ensemble (Fanny u/s)

Robert Ariza as Ensemble (Nicky u/s)

Ryan Vasquez as John/Cornet Man/Ensemble (Nicky u/s)

Sharone Sayegh as Ensemble

Usman Ali Ishaq as Renaldi/Ensemble (Eddie u/s)

Ethan Le Phong as Swing (Keeney u/s)

Hannah Florence as Swing

Michael Graceffa as Swing (Eddie u/s)

Sydney Parra as Swing (Meeker u/s, Straykosh u/s)

Honorable Mentions: Carolee Carmello as Mrs. Brice Liz McCartney as Mrs. Straykosh

#Casting Goals #Funny Girl #Lindsay Mendez #Michael C. Hall #Donna Murphy #Thayne Jasperson #Christianne Tisdale #Paul Schoeffler #Sharon Sachs #William Ryall #Ahmad Maksoud #Chelsea Emma Franko #Ellen Harvey #Lisa Howard #Madison Alexander #Marie Eife #Robert Ariza #Ryan Vasquez #Sharone Sayegh #Usman Ali Ishaq #Ethan Le Phong #Hannah Florence #Michael Graceffa #Sydney Parra #Carolee Carmello #Liz McCartney

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The Affinity Cocktail - Scotch Whisky And Vermouth Find True Love

The Affinity Cocktail Pairs Scotch Affection For Vermouth

The Affinity Cocktail is one of only a few truly classic drinks mixed with Scotch whisky which shows the difficulty of pairing it in the perfect marriage. At least in spirit.

Modern versions of the Affinity Cocktail have sort of settled on a sip similar to a perfect Scotch Manhattan with orange or aromatic bitters, although the original drink recipe was hardly perfect (equal parts French and Italian vermouth). Back then it was closer to a sweetened Scottish Rory O'More or a Robert Burns with sugar instead of absinthe.

Either way, like most Scotch whisky cocktails, the character of this drink is greatly effected by how manly the mixture is. Blended may be best to begin with.

History Of The Affinity Cocktail

First Appeared In Print

The New York Sun initially reported on Monday, October 28, 1907 that,*

There's another new cocktail on Broadway. They call it the Affinity. After drinking one, surviving experimenters declare, the horizon takes on a roseate hue; the second brings Wall Street to the front and center proffering to you a quantity of glistening lamb shearings; when you’ve put away the third the green grass grows up all around, birds sing in the fig trees and your affinity appears.

The new ambrosia contains these ingredients...

Original Affinity Cocktail Recipe:

1 jigger (1 ½ oz) Scotch whisky

½ jigger (¾ oz) Italian vermouth

1 (medium) tsp powdered sugar

1 dash orange bitters

Shake in cracked ice, cocktail fashion, until thoroughly blended and cooled, then strain and quickly serve. ( Note: would recommend using superfine sugar though instead of powdered to avoid the corn starch and other anticaking agents which adds cloudiness and can affect the flavor. )

During this time period, many cocktails were created to commemorate the opening of a Broadway play and the reference to Wall Street is in relation to the financial crisis known as the 1907 Banker's Panic which was triggered by a failed attempt to corner the market on United Copper Company stock in October 1907.

Which Broadway play inspired the name for the Affinity cocktail though?

Keep reading below.

Syndication

Syndicated newspaper columns including The Washington Post and others ran the story the following day. The Hartford Courant embellished the details with their own verse which also provided some more clues to the source, writing,†

Well, then the pianola sounds as good as the symphony orchestra. The second one convinces you that trust companies and savings banks are solvent and you want to put your money back. If you take three it seems like Summer, otherwise you’ll buy your wife, or the affinity, a new fur coat. Then it’s time to stop.

“It moved the poet to the following:

In its glistening depth is the light of her eyes,

In its taste is her honey kiss.

There’s a victor’s crown for the man who tries

To build me another like this.

If you put another bright red cherry in the last one you will feel like a Belmont as you ride home in the subway.

Divorcons or Let's Get A Divorce

James Slevin announces on November 8, 1907 a sketch he adopted for vaudeville based on the 1885 book Divorcons! by Emile de Najac and Victorien Sardou may be named Affinity.‡ This does not appear to have happened, although the original title was turned into a play1 which opened at the Playhouse Theatre April 1, 1913 running through May 19, 1913 and was later released as a 40 minute short silent black and white film2 as a comedy drama on December 15, 1915.

His Affinity Is A Miss

His Affinity is released as a black and white short silent film on November 9, 1907.3 This comedy details the adventures of a mild mannered husband, who after deciding to leave his overbearing wife, finds romance with a single girl he meets in the park. Drama ensues.

Good Golly Miss Molly, McGinnity

Good Golly is right when it comes to all the affinity references in popular culture in 1907 and shortly afterwards. Not to be confused with the rock and roll song by Little Richard in 1958, “Molly McGinnity, You're My Affinity” by composer John W. Bratton was released November 23, 1907. However, this humorous Irish folk song, lyrics below, was not featured on Broadway.4

The Billowy Ecstasy Of Neptunian Soul Kisses

The year 1907's affinity for affinity has come to a close and the source for the “newest drink on Broadway” as proclaimed by The New York Sun at the end of October does not seem to exist. Unless an advanced preview of an upcoming show served as inspiration for the Affinity Cocktail.

Enter The Soul Kiss, a Broadway musical created by Florenz Ziegfeld all about the subject, which included the song My Affinity, sung by the sculptor in the show sixth on the song list during Act I. It opened January 28, 1908 at the New York Theater and ran for 122 performances until May 23, 1908.5

The play had a behind the scenes production cast that included many of the same players responsible for The Ziegfeld Follies. Familiar names included producers A.L. Erlanger and Marcus Klaw, music by Maurice Levi (and others) and script / lyrics written by Harry B. Smith, who also wrote the Rob Roy operetta which has a drink named after it.

The soul kiss, a tongue in cheek [sic] expression for a French kiss elevated to exaggerated proportions, was supposedly invented by a romance instructor who was quoted in a newspaper interview as saying, “When I exchange soul kisses with my affinity in the planet Neptune, I close the doors, throw myself on a couch, my soul goes out from my body to meet him and I experience a billowy ecstasy.” By the way, at the time, personal lessons could be purchased for $300.

Her description inspired Smith6 to develop the plot for the play which had J. Lucifer Mephisto (Ralph C. Herz) betting one million dollars that sculptor Ketcham Short (Cecil Lean) would not remain faithful to his fiance, model Suzette (Florence Holbrook), under the temptation of a soul kiss from dancer (Adeline Genee). As a follow up, The Ziegfeld Follies of 1908, which debuted on June 15th of that year, contained a comedy spoof mocking the November elections called The Political Soul Kiss where Miss Columbia (female Uncle Sam) tries to find her affinity among the presidential candidates including William Jennings Bryan, Charles Evans Hughes, William Howard Taft and then 2nd term incumbent president Theodore Roosevelt who was not seeking a third.

The Affinity (Play)

Its probably folly to keep searching for the stimulus behind this sip's sobriquet since The Soul Kiss seems to seal the deal, but there actually was a Broadway play named The Affinity.7 However, in 1907 it was still known as Les Hannetons.

Les Hannetons, which translates to cockchafers (the beetles known as June Bugs), by French playwright Eugene Brieux, was a three act bitter comedy first produced at the Theatre de la Renaissance in Paris, France on February 3, 1906. The controversial play dealt with matrimony and mistresses, treating marriage as a battleground, and gained some infamous notoriety after being banned by censors in both France and England. British stage actor Laurence Irving, who translated Les Hannetons8 into English, performed the play with his wife Mabel Hackney in the United States, first renamed as The Incubus in 1909 and then later renamed again in January 1910 as The Affinity. There were no bureaucratic black outs on Broadway, but the crowds were not amused and the play lasted for only 24 performances at the Comedy Theater on west 41st street.

Behind Your Bar - How To Make An Affinity Cocktail At Home

First Published In A Cocktail Book

Minus the powdered sugar, the Express Cocktail with equal parts Scotch whisky and Italian vermouth plus a dash of orange bitters via Straub's Manual of Mixed Drinks (1913) appears to be the earliest recipe printed in a cocktail book which comes closest to the original 1907 Affinity Cocktail. However, the first one named the Affinity Cocktail published in a bartending book is the one in The Reminder by Jacob A Didier (1909) and it is a different formulation.9

Its this ‘perfect’ combination of Scotch whisky with French and Italian vermouths along with aromatic or orange bitters that has become the modern classic so to speak.10

Affinity Cocktail Drink Recipe (modern classic):

1 oz Scotch whisky (blended)

1 oz French (dry) vermouth

1 oz Italian (sweet) vermouth

2 dashes aromatic or orange bitters

Measure all the ingredients into a mixing glass with ice and stir well. Strain and serve with a twist of lemon peel (or orange rind to match the bitters if chosen). Adjust the manliness to suit.

David Embury, the author of The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks (1948) ratchets up the proportions to a 4:1:1 ratio. When it comes to Scotch though, that's probably too manly for most.

Similar Mixed Drinks

Automobile Cocktail - gin, scotch, sweet vermouth and orange bitters.

Beadlestone Cocktail - equal parts Scotch and dry vermouth.

Borden Chase - an original Affinity Cocktail with pastis instead of powdered sugar.

Emerald Cocktail - half-n-half Irish whiskey and Italian vermouth with a dash of orange bitters.

Highland Cocktail - equal parts Scotch and sweet vermouth.

Thistle Cocktail - Scotch whisky, Italian vermouth and Angostura bitters.

Trilby Variation - a Borden Chase with parfait amour.

York Cocktail - Scotch whisky, French vermouth and orange bitters.

References

* - "Live Topics About Town." New York Sun 28 Oct. 1907: 4. Print.

† - Hartford Courant 29 Oct. 1907: 14. Print.

‡ - "An 'Affinity' Sketch." Variety Magazine Nov. 1907: 6. Print.

1 - Divorcons (the play).

2 - Divorcons (the movie).

3 - His Affinity (the movie).

4 - Molly McGinnity, You're My Affinity song lyrics:

I've been a single man all my life.

I've never wanted to own a wife.

No Wedding Bells was the song for me.

Money my own, and my evenings free.

Now all that's over, those days are through;

You've done the trick with your eyes of blue.

Molly McGinnity don't you see?

You're the affinity meant for me.

Molly McGinnity, You're my affinity, Say that you love me, do.

In this vicinity, No femininity, Is half so sweet as you.

Molly McGinnity, Down at old Trinity, If you will not decline.

There's a doctor of divinity, The Reverend Finnerty, A waiting to make you mine.

“Hold on a minute,” says Molly dear,

“What's this affinity word I hear?

Is it some kind of a breakfast food?

May be its meaning is not so good.”

“Whisper,” says I, “‘tis a brand new word,

‘Tis from the French, and it means a bird.”

“Oh, if that's so” says my Molly dear,

“Say it again, for I like to hear.”

Molly McGinnity, You're my affinity, Say that you love me, do.

In this vicinity, No femininity, Is half so sweet as you.

Molly McGinnity, Down at old Trinity, If you will not decline.

There's a doctor of divinity, The Reverend Finnerty, A waiting to make you mine.

5 - The Soul Kiss (Broadway musical extravaganza).

6 - Harry Bache Smith, First Nights and First Editions - An Autobiography (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1931). Print.

7 - The Affinity (the play).

8 - Michael Holroyd, A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008). Print.

9 - That's not really true, but since the first "Affinity cocktail" published in a bartending book was actually a completely separate recipe altogether, we decided to remove it from the main article content. This drink, which later became known to some as the Violet Affinity cocktail was originally listed with instructions to frappe 2/5 French vermouth with 2/5 Italian vermouth and 1/5 crème de violette; serving in a chilled stemmed glasses via William T. (Cocktail) Boothby, The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them (San Francisco: Pacific Buffet, 1908), 143. Print.

10 - Other Affinity cocktail variations have appeared along the way including one with equal measures of whiskey, French and Italian vermouths along with 3 drops of Peychaud bitters and a twist of orange peel on top via Ernest P. Rawling, Rawling's Book of Mixed Drinks - An Up to Date Guide for Mixing and Serving All Kinds of Beverages and Written Expressly for the Man Who Entertains at Home (San Francisco: Guild Press, 1914), 14. Print.

#Cocktails #drinks #scotch #vermouth #bitters #classic #broadway

[chantalstacys]

finishing movies in my head… 

Ziegfeld Girl - Sheila and Gil move to the country to raise their ducks. The fresh air, open space, and lower-pressure lifestyle helps to bring Sheila back into good health. In addition to raising ducks, Sheila takes up gardening and swimming. They make enough money so Sheila is still able to indulge in beautiful things like French perfumes and pretty gowns for opening nights at the follies. They don’t tell their grandchildren about the bootlegging or about Sheila drunkenly going onstage. Not until they’re older.

Sabrina - Linus and Sabrina have such a wonderful time in Paris together that it becomes their goal to end up there. Linus, using his endless resources and connections, opens a branch of the Larrabee business in France, allowing for them to move there permanently. Sabrina enjoys a simple life of reading, wandering the city, having tea with her retired father, writing a cookbook, and working part-time in a beautiful, fairytale-like patisserie.

Gilda - Johnny and Gilda move back to New York together. They sell all of their belongings that remind them of Argentina and take a small one-bedroom apartment in the city with money to spare. They decide not to have children and instead save their money for different kinds of dreams. Johnny starts off working at a nightclub and Gilda works as a chorus girl. In a few years, Johnny is able to open an upscale club of his own. His lavish club is wildly successful and he and Gilda move from their one-bedroom apartment to a penthouse. Gilda achieves her dreams as well as she opens her own dance studio and teaches classes to giggly and sweet teenage girls.

Mildred Pierce - Mildred doesn’t want her daughter to be too severely punished, and is still able to afford a clever lawyer who turns the story around so that Veda would look like she was protecting herself from Monty. Veda does not go to jail, but her mother is through with helping her anymore. She moves to New York to start fresh, and, using a new name, has hopes to pursue acting. Veda’s youth, beauty, and mysterious dark side are at her advantage, but she ultimately decides to marry a rich young man because she prefers the comfort and security in high society life. To cope with her past, she keeps a diary where she secretly and obsessively writes stories inspired by her life.

The Reluctant Debutante - Jane and David move to Italy and have a small but lovely wedding. Their ceremony is decorated with colorful, fragrant flowers, lively music, and various cuisines from around the world. When they’re not in Florence as duke and duchess, they spend time together in their villa in Capri, listening to their favorite records, learning about music and dances from other cultures, having picnics on their charming little boat, and having long and open conversations about their views of the world.

#i don't expect anyone to really like this lol #they're just my old hollywood daydreams and i wanted them on here! #old hollywood diary